Bebai

== Fausset's Bible Dictionary ==

Sons of (Ezra 2:11; Ezra 8:11; Ezra 10:28; Nehemiah 7:16; Nehemiah 10:15).

== Holman Bible Dictionary == Nehemiah 7:16,628Ezra 2:11Ezra 8:11Ezra 10:282Nehemiah 10:15 == Hitchcock's Bible Names == == Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible ==

BEBAI . 1 . The eponym of a family of returning exiles ( Ezra 2:11; Ezra 8:11; Ezra 10:28 , Nehemiah 7:16; Nehemiah 10:15 , Esther 5:13 Esther 5:13; 1E Esther 9:29 ). 2 . An unknown locality mentioned only in Jdt 15:4 .

== Morrish Bible Dictionary ==

Two or three whose descendants returned from exile. Ezra 2:11; Ezra 8:11; Ezra 10:28; Nehemiah 7:16 . And one who sealed the covenant. Nehemiah 10:15 .

== Smith's Bible Dictionary ==

Beb'a-i. (fatherly).

1. "Sons of Bebai," 623 Nehemiah 6:28 in number, returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel, Deuteronomy 2:11; Nehemiah 7:16. (B.C. 536), and at a later period, twenty-eight more, under Zechariah, son of Bebai, returned with Ezra. Ezra 8:11. Four of this family had taken foreign wives. Ezra 10:28. The name occurs also among those who sealed the covenant. Nehemiah 10:15.

2. Father of Zechariah, who was the leader of the twenty-eight men of his tribe mentioned above.

== International Standard Bible Encyclopedia ==

bē´bā̇ -ı̄ , beb´a -ı̄ ( בּבי , bēbhay  ; Septuagint Βηβαί , Bēbaı́ , "fatherly"):

(1) Descendants of B: returned with Ezra to Jerusalem (Ezra 8:11 called Babi; 1 Esdras 8:37); one of these is Zechariah, the son of Bebai ( Ezra 8:11 , Zaeharias; 1 Esdras 8:37). 623 returned with Zerubbabel to Jerusalem (Ezra 2:11; 1 Esdras 5:13; Nehemiah 7:16 gives the number 628); some of these had married "strange wives" ( Ezra 10:28; 1 Esdras 9:29).

(2) A chief of the people who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah (Nehemiah 10:15 ).

Latin Bible == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature ==

the name of one or two men, and a place. 1. (Heb. Bebay', בֵּבִי, from the Pehlvi bab, father;

1. Sept. βαβαϊ v, βηβαϊ v, βαβί, and βηβι ), the head of one of the families that returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel (B.C. 536) to the number of 623 (Ezra 2:11; 1 Esdras 5:13), or 628 by a different mode of reckoning (Nehemiah 7:16), of whom his son Zechariah, with 28 males, returned (B.C. 459) under Ezra (Ezra 8:11; 1 Esdras 8:37). Several other of his sons are mentioned in chap. 10:28. He (if the same) subscribed to the sacred covenant with Nehemiah (Ezra 10:15). B.C. 410. Four of this family had taken foreign wives (Nehemiah 10:28; 1 Esdras 9:29).

2. (Alex. βηβαί, Vat. omits; Vulg. omits). A place named only in Judith 15:4. It is, perhaps, a mere repetition of the name CHOBAI (See Chobai) (q.v.), occurring next to it.